2024-09-18 22:29:08 ¶ ●

In Futamono, after Matthew’s murder attempt of him, Hannibal tells Alana he needs to get his appetite back. The next scene opens to Sheldon Isley’s body displayed in the parking lot. It’s big, clean, refreshing [flowers being a motif], and the way it is shot; it fills the entire screen. It’s saying ‘Look at me, I’m here’. It is not Hannibal exerting power to reassure himself from any insecurity or powerlessness–he’s simply existing, he’s simply alive, and that’s so fucking scary.